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Some programs offer classroom instruction, others on-the-job training, still others a mixture of both. They aim to place graduates in a wide variety of jobs, including auto mechanic, shoe repairman, nurse's aide, hotel bookkeeper. Coordination and supervision are spotty at best. Houston-area officials of the Labor Department's Manpower Administration do not even know how many programs are operating locally; they estimate twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Taking Aim at Job Training | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...support of civil rights and his concern for the poorer classes. Beulah Stepp, an Independent who works with retarded children in Detroit, says McGovern "isn't being radical: he's being an honest politician, which is hard to find these days." Joseph Turner, a Democratic sewing-machine repairman from Roselle, N.J., believes McGovern is more likely to look out for the working classes and enforce the law of the land on matters like school integration. Charles Sage, a Clifton, N.J., scientist and a Democrat, says McGovern "has the potential of being a really great President because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Citizens'Panel: A Few Kind Words for McGovern | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...Will Jr., "I am confident he would have liked him. My father's writing should not be twisted and distorted by either party. This is very bad taste." The Committee for the Re-Election of the President denied authorizing the sticker, but traced its origin to a television repairman from Midwest City, Okla. Obviously, Will Rogers never met a TV repairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Will Rogers' Endorsement | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

Ushering his two guests into his laboratory, the Doctor proudly points out several of his experiments: a study of premature ejaculation in hippos, the transplantation of the brain of a lesbian into a telephone repairman, and one bizzare experiment in which the Doctor feeds a helpless young lady nothing but Silicone. The effects are enormous...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: Giving Dr. Reuben the Finger | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

Chintzy Ties. Nobody, that is," but Molloy. Over the next decade, he refined his techniques and conducted other experiments that convinced him he was right. During his early research, for example, he discovered that the Boston Strangler invariably wore beige or gray repairman-like outfits; the light colors tended to reassure housewives and helped him get into their homes. Last year Molloy planted an actor posing as a trainee in a New York City corporate office, and instructed him to ask 100 secretaries to retrieve some information from their files. First the actor dressed in "lower-middle-class" style: black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Groomer | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

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